To:THE EDITORS OFISKRA[2]

To the Editorial Board of the Central Organ

Written:Written December 24-27, 1903, in Geneva (local mail)Published:First published in 1929.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1974,

      Moscow,Volume 34,

      pages213-214.Translated:Clemens DuttTranscription\Markup:D. MorosPublic Domain:Lenin Internet Archive

      (2005).You may freely copy, distribute,
	display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and
	commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet
	Archive” as your source.•READMEComrades,Inconnection with the resolution adopted on December 22 by the editorial
board of the Central Organ, the representative of the C.C. abroad considers it
necessary to point out to the editors the extreme unseemliness of this
resolution, which can only he put down to excessive
irritation.[3]IfLenin, acting not as a C.C. member but as a former editor, expounded
something which you thought incorrect, you can thresh this out in the press.ComradeHans did not conclude on behalf of the C.C. any agreement about
non-publication of the negotiations and he could not do so without our
knowledge. The editorial board cannot fail to be aware of this. Probably
Comrade Hans made a suggestion about non-publication of the
negotiationsin
the event of a formal peace being concluded.Notevasively, but quite categorically, the C.C. representative abroad twice
informed the editorial board of the C.O. that he permitted Lenin’s letter
to be
published.[1]Ifthe editorial board had not been moved by a spirit of excessive irritation,
it would easily have seen how extremely out of place were its remarks about the
number of C.C. members living abroad. To this and other unseemly attacks of the
editorial board (like the ludicrous charge of some kind of alleged
“secret” printing), the C.C. represen-tative abroad replies merely by a call to remember Party duty and put a stop toactscapable of making literary polemics the occasion for a split.TheCentral Committee Representative AbroadNotes[1]Thereference is to the letter “Why I Resigned From theIskraEditorial board” (see present edition,
  Vol. 7).—Ed.[2]Leninwrote this letter for Lengnik, the C.C.’s representative abroad.[3]Thisrefers to the resolution passed by the editorial board of the new,
Menshevik,Iskraconcerning the publication as a separate sheet of
Lenin’s letter “Why I Resigned from theIskraEditorial Board”
(see ^^Vol. 7^^ of this edition).

Inconnection with the resolution adopted on December 22 by the editorial
board of the Central Organ, the representative of the C.C. abroad considers it
necessary to point out to the editors the extreme unseemliness of this
resolution, which can only he put down to excessive
irritation.[3]

IfLenin, acting not as a C.C. member but as a former editor, expounded
something which you thought incorrect, you can thresh this out in the press.

ComradeHans did not conclude on behalf of the C.C. any agreement about
non-publication of the negotiations and he could not do so without our
knowledge. The editorial board cannot fail to be aware of this. Probably
Comrade Hans made a suggestion about non-publication of the
negotiationsin
the event of a formal peace being concluded.

Notevasively, but quite categorically, the C.C. representative abroad twice
informed the editorial board of the C.O. that he permitted Lenin’s letter
to be
published.[1]

Ifthe editorial board had not been moved by a spirit of excessive irritation,
it would easily have seen how extremely out of place were its remarks about the
number of C.C. members living abroad. To this and other unseemly attacks of the
editorial board (like the ludicrous charge of some kind of alleged
“secret” printing), the C.C. represen-tative abroad replies merely by a call to remember Party duty and put a stop toactscapable of making literary polemics the occasion for a split.

TheCentral Committee Representative Abroad

[1]Thereference is to the letter “Why I Resigned From theIskraEditorial board” (see present edition,
  Vol. 7).—Ed.

[2]Leninwrote this letter for Lengnik, the C.C.’s representative abroad.

[3]Thisrefers to the resolution passed by the editorial board of the new,
Menshevik,Iskraconcerning the publication as a separate sheet of
Lenin’s letter “Why I Resigned from theIskraEditorial Board”
(see ^^Vol. 7^^ of this edition).